Relative Sizing of Different Face Value Coins in One Image

Give me time and I'll figure out how to use it on coins.
This is one composited image of four coins of different face values in a raw format presented in their relative sizes.
If I were to use this presentation as a finished format I would have the background in one tone.

Comments, please.
-- Do you like it?
-- What could I do to make it more pleasing?
-- Anything else?

 

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I can see one mistake.
Somehow I substituted a quarter for the dime.
Ignore that since (in theory) I would not make that error in a finished product.

 

I just want to know why you have all my arrows and rays coins?.... Lovely set!

 

I have a full Red Book date/mintmark/variety of "arrows at the date" set.
I selected that design since it's large but not humongous (45 coins).
My thinking is to produce a nice looking presentation.

 

I do like it, very much!

Presentation-wise: as you say, re-shoot on a uniform background with consistent lighting. Try centering each row, or centering each column; I'm not sure how each would work here.

What you have:

Obv	Rev
Obv	Rev
Obv	Rev

Centered rows:

Obv​	Rev
Obv​	Rev
Obv​	Rev

Centered columns:

Obv​	Rev​
Obv​	Rev​
Obv​	Rev​

 

So are they all at the same resolution (dpi, or whatever)?

 

I envy your set. Absolutely spectacular.

 

@kanga beautiful set.

I like the idea behind your photos. Definitely needs uniformity. As you said, one color background (black is my preference), centered would be eye appealing, consistent lighting.

I'll follow along to see your modifications. Good job so far.

 

I would personally appreciate circle cropping the images to remove the background.

After that, I think it's personal choice how you'd like to arrange the images - I did this for a Canadian set I imaged a while ago while just playing around (it looks better when they are placed end to end):

 

Thanks for all the input.

I have definitely intended to use circular crop in order allow me to create a uniform background.
I'm not sure that I like a black background; I generally use a medium gray background (the HEX Code for Silver: c0c0c0).

As for alignment I was considering a pyramid-type structure (the "centered rows" proposed by @jeffb).
But I wanted other suggestions since I considered structure might have more options which turned out to be the case.

As for the actual images I'm stuck with what I've got at this time.
All the coins are in a bank safe deposit box and it would be a real pain to get them out and re-image some or all of them.
But I'll see.

I'm still mulling over the groupings.
There are:
-- Dates: 1853, 1854, 1855, 1873, 1874
-- Mint Marks: none, O, S, CC
-- Arrows
-- Rays
-- Varieties
-- Combinations of the above
This is a TBD.

And then there's labeling.

 

Okay, here's the "improved" and unlabeled stack.
My main problems now are:
-- all the coins are in slabs and a neat circular crop is not really possible.
-- there are obvious rim shadows on some of the coins.
I can probably lessen those problems by using better lighting.
But given that it's a pain in the butt to get to the coins I'll probably live with the current results.

Next I'll see what labeling format looks at least presentable.

 

Okay, here's my first shot at labeling.

 

Now that looks great! Here's one I did with some of my British Victorian type set. No labels, but I made it to use as desktop wallpaper.

 

Yes, that works very nicely.
Different monarch than my interest area, but the Brits can sure design some very appealing coins.

I have a birth year set so KGVI is the ruler.
Nothing expensive except the Maundy coins.